End Effector Integration Engineer

The hands of a humanoid robot are yours to design.

Your Role

& Responsibilities Own the end-effector strategy across different industrial robotics applications. Analyze customer workflows and operational requirements to identify the most suitable endeffector solutions. Evaluate and select commercially available end-effectors including grippers, suction systems, hooks, tool changers, robotic hands, cameras, and specialized tooling.

Drive standardization and platform thinking by reducing the number of end-effector variants while maximizing use-case coverage. Define requirements for future end-effector solutions based on customer needs, product requirements, and engineering constraints. Coordinate and manage relationships with external suppliers, technology partners, and development vendors.

Support feasibility studies, proof-of-concepts, customer evaluations, and pilot deployments. Define evaluation criteria, benchmarking methodologies, and trade-off analyses for endeffector technologies. Develop business cases and technical recommendations for buy-vs-build decisions. Track emerging technologies and market trends in manipulation, grasping, vacuum handling, tactile sensing, dexterous hands, and industrial tooling.

Ensure successful integration of selected end-effectors into the robotic platform and deployment workflows. Contribute to the development of a long-term manipulation and tooling roadmap. Required Technical and Professional Expertise BSc/MSc in Robotics, Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronics, Automation Engineering, or a related field.

5+ years of experience in robotics, automation, industrial tooling, end-of-arm tooling, application engineering, or solutions engineering. Strong understanding of robotic manipulation systems and industrial automation. Experience working with grippers, vacuum systems, robotic hands, tool changers, or similar end-effectors.

Experience evaluating and integrating third-party hardware solutions. Strong systems-engineering mindset with the ability to balance technical and business considerations. Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills. Ability to translate customer needs into technical requirements and actionable engineering decisions.

Familiarity with any of ROS2, robot kinematics, manipulation/grasp planning, controls, force control, tactile sensing, or dexterous manipulation is a plus.